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Mr. and Mrs. Douglas are well-known citizens, honored and respected in the community where they live and where they have a host of friends. Mr. Douglas votes the Democratic ticket. The farm they now live on was owned by Elias B. James, where he resided more than fifty years prior to his death, having obtained his, deed from the government.
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EVERETT E. SMILEY.
Particular interest is attached to the study of the life of Everett E. Smiley, because of the fact that he has attained his present enviable position and prosperity by reason of innate efficiency and estimable personal charac- teristics. When others slept, he worked; when others played, he planned, and it was through practical industry, wisely and persistently applied that he wrested success from possible failure, and prominence from what might have been to others obscurity. Everett E. Smiley, a well-known farmer and stock raiser of this county, was born in Decatur county, five miles south- west of Greensburg, Indiana, on April 8, 1874. He makes a specialty of raising purebred Holstein-Freisians, stock and dairy products, and with his family lives on his farm of sixty acres, two and one-half miles northwest of Wheeling, on the Morgan Pike.
Mr. Smiley is the son of H. K. and Sarilda ( Robbins) Smiley. H. K. Smiley was born on a farm near Oxford, Ohio, and moved to Decatur county, Indiana, with his parents when he was only a child. His father was William Smiley, a well-known resident of Decatur county, where H. K. Smiley and his wife spent the rest of their lives. Sarilda Robbins was born in Decatur county, being a daughter of John E. Robbins, Sr., also a native of Decatur county. He was the son of William Robbins, who was born in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and was one of the earliest pioneer settlers in Decatur county, for he went there when it was a wilderness. John E. Robbins, Sr., was at the time of his death president of the Third National Bank of Greensburg, Indiana, and was one of the wealthiest men of his county. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living near Greensburg with the exception of one, who is a resi- dent of Indianapolis.
H. K. and Sarilda Smiley spent their childhood and youth in Decatur county, where they were married and where H. K. Smiley died on January 8, 1915. After his retirement he lived until about 1900 in Greensburg, where his widow still lives. They were the parents of seven children, all of whom are alive. These children are as follow: Minnie, the wife of Londa Wright, a farmer of Westport, Indiana; Cassius C., of Indianapolis; Ever- ett E., subject of this biography; Myrtle O. and Hershall H., both of Indianapolis; Daisy married Addison McGee, of Greensburg; Robin Z., of Cincinnati.
Everett Smiley lived with his parents until his marriage, which took
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place on February 27, 1895, his bride being Myrtle Gartin, daughter of Ed M. and Alice (Bruce) Gartin, who were born and brought up in Decatur county. It was in that county that Mr. and Mrs. Smiley were married and rented property until their removal to Carroll county, in the fall of 1909. Since that time they have lived on what is known as part of the Jacob Silvers farm, which they bought in the fall of 1908. They are the parents of five children, these being Arnold D., who is a graduate of the Flora high school and lives at home; L. Gretchen, who is in the fourth year of high school; Ruth Alice, who died on May 6, 1900; Lorin M., who is in the eight year of the graded schools, and Edwin E., who is in his third year of school.
Mr. and Mrs. Smiley are prominent members of the Baptist church at Sharon. Mr. Smiley has always cast his vote with the Republican party. He is a man of pleasing personality, gentle disposition and generous impulses, and his conduct has been guided always by the strong principles which were inculcated by the fireside of his good and upright parents. He is a respected citizen, and both he and his wife welcome many friends at their beautiful home.
WILLIAM H. DRAPER.
Prominent in the agricultural life of Democrat township, where he has made a very large success of farming, owning now five hundred and ninety- one acres of land, all of which he has accumulated by dint of his own per- sonal efforts, William H. Draper is a well-known and highly-respected citi- zen. He lives on a farm of two hundred and fifty-one acres at the edge of Cutler, in Democrat township, the farm he purchased some years ago while in partnership with his brother, John J.
Mr. Draper is a native of Clinton county, Indiana, born near Michigan Town, December 11, 1857. He is the son of Stephen and Mary Jane (Floyd) Draper, the former of whom was the son of Jerry and Nancy Anne Draper, and was born in the state of Ohio. The Drapers are of Irish descent.
Mary Jane Floyd, daughter of John and Nancy Anne Floyd, who are of Dutch descent, came with her parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and was married to Stephen Draper in that state. One child was born to them in Ohio, Nancy Anne. Later they moved to Iowa and there a second child was born, Sarah Katherine. Subsequently they moved to Indiana. At one
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time Stephen Draper owned eighty acres of land in Miami county. To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Draper were born seven children, of whom three, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, Mrs. Harriett Ruse and Charles I., are deceased. The living children are Nancy Anne, who is the wife of John Shonk, of Democrat township; John J., ,who is a well-known and prosperous farmer of Demo- crat township; William H., who is the subject of this sketch, and Ellen, who is the wife of Oscar Ransopher, of Clinton county.
After having lived at home with his parents until twenty-one years old, William H. Draper started in life for himself. Without influential friends or resources, he began working by the month at fifteen dollars a month and continued work until twenty-six years old, or until he was mar- ried.
William H. Draper was married on June 26, 1883, to Ida Adams, daughter of Warren Adams, a prominent citizen of Democrat township, and the owner of the Adams mill. To this union two children were born, Bertha B., the wife of Morris Ayres, of Monroe township, and William V., at home. Mrs. Ida Draper died on March 27, 1887. The father kept the children together, and on March 2, 1890, was married to Mary Elizabeth Clem, daughter of Paul and Catherine Clem.
Paul Clem was born in Koenigsbach, Germany, on March 13, 1828, and his wife was born in Wurtemberg. Germany, on November 1, 1829. They came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in 1853 and were mar- ried on March 14, 1854. To them were born seven children. Mary Eliza- beth, wife of William H. Draper, was born in Pennsylvania and came with her parents to Indiana in 1865.
To Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper were born four children, of whom two are living and two are deceased. Bruce and Ruth, twins, are at home. Basil Elwood died on August 4, 1894, at the age of three years, and Radiance Alena died on November 30, 1915. being twenty-two years old.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper operated the James Ayres farm for two years. Then, in partnership with his brother, John J., Mr. Draper purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Democrat township. Subsequently they increased the area of this farm to two hundred and forty acres, then bought an additional two hundred and forty acres, where William H. Draper now lives. William H. and John J. Draper were in partnership for about eighteen years and enjoyed a large success in farming and stock raising during that period. Mr. and
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Mrs. Draper and family have lived on their present farm sixteen years, and have lived for about forty years in Democrat township.
William H. Draper votes the Democratic ticket, but takes no very great interest in politics, having given his whole life to the vocation of farming. His career is a very excellent example of what a man may accomplish if he centers his energies on a given course of action and sticks to it, avoiding all diversions and unmoved by all other attractions.
PETER JULIEN.
Peter Julien, a pioneer resident of Carroll county and a retired farmer of Monroe township, is a native of Warren county, Ohio, born on Septem- ber 10, 1837.
Mr. Julien is the son of Abel and Rachel (Banta) Julien, the former of whom was born in South Carolina and who moved to Ohio at an early date. He was a farmer by occupation and was also engaged in driving prairie schooners. In 1843 the family moved to Indiana and in that year, when Peter Julien was only six years old, his mother died. The father had previously made the journey to Indiana and had entered eighty acres of land in Madison township, Carroll county.
Abel and Rachel (Banta) Julien had nine children, Mary, David, Eli, Daniel, Henry, Ellis, Peter, Albert and William, of whom Peter, the subject of this sketch, is the only one now living. After the death of his first wife, Abel Julien was married a second time, and to this second marriage there was born one child, Jessie.
When fifteen years old. Peter Julien left home and began to work on neighboring farms. He worked out by the month for different farmers in the neighborhood. On August 28, 1859, Peter Julien was married to Eliza- beth Bard. They lived on forty acres of land west of Bringhurst, where Mrs. Elizabeth Julien died on August 2. 1867. To this union were born four children, two of whom died in infancy, Mrs. H. H., who lives in Howard county, near Kokomo, and a son, whose whereabouts is unknown. From 1868 to 1877 Mr. Julien followed the carpenter's trade. Mr. Julien lived in Delphi until 1873, when he moved to Frankfort, where he lived for two years. He then returned to Delphi and finally settled one mile south- west of Bringhurst, where he lived for one year. The Julien family then moved to a farm two miles east of Radnor, where they lived for four years.
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They then purchased a farm three miles west of Flora, where they lived until March, 1914, when they moved to Flora. Mr. Julien owns one hun- dred and sixty acres of land, which is rented.
On September 22, 1870, Peter Julien was married, at Delphi, to Amanda Overley, the daughter of H. H. and Rebecca (Greathouse) Over- ley, the former of whom emigrated from Ross county, Ohio, with his par- ents in October, 1830, when he was twelve years old. They settled on the Wabash river, where they spent one winter and then entered land in Tippe- canoe township, Carroll county, Indiana, near Sheets mill. David Overley, the father, died there in 1842. Rebecca Greathouse, at the time of her marriage to H. H. Overley, was living in Lafayette. After their marriage, they settled in Tippecanoe township and lived there for two years. They then moved to Illinois in the fall of 1844. In the spring of 1845 they returned to Indiana and settled on the Monticello road, in Tippecanoe and Jefferson townships. In the spring of 1849 they moved to the prairie near Delphi, and in the spring of 1853 to a farm one mile north of Pittsburg. There Mrs. Rebecca Overley died in 1853. Her husband then moved to a farm two miles north of Pittsburg, in the spring of 1854, and there he lived until 1865, when he sold out and moved to White county, settling five miles east of Monticello, where he died in March, 1872.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Julien have been the parents of four children, two of whom are now living; Harry Burton and Wilbur D. are deceased; Ren C., who. lives in Delphi, and Maud, the wife of Walter Ayres, who lives south of Flora on a farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Julien are members of the First Baptist church of Delphi. Mr. Julien has been a Republican in politics all of his life.
FRANCIS M. JOYCE.
The office of biographer is not to express a man's opinion of himself, nor to indulge in fulsome praise. But rather is it his task to present the facts of a man's life, and these should speak for themselves. If a man possesses admirable qualities, this will be evident in the record of his life, and in the consensus of opinion of his friends, neighbors and fellow citi- zens. In the following biography it will be the effort of the writer to give those facts which will indicate that the person whom they describe has lived a truly useful and honorable life, a life characterized by a well-defined
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purpose and the moral strength to execute this purpose. Francis M. Joyce, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of this county, was born in Butler county, Ohio, on December 12, 1847. He lives on his farm of sixty acres, called the "Green Leaf Farm," and owns in addition the sixty acres adjoin- ing it.
The parents of Mr. Joyce are David and Sarah (Sedam) Joyce. David Joyce, who was a well-known and influential man in his day, was also a native of Butler county, Ohio, being the son of William Joyce, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania at an early date, when he was still a boy. During the French and Indian War, although he was a mere boy, he served as a packhorse man. He lived and died in Butler county. David Joyce grew to manhood on his father's farm and was married in Ohio. He continued to live on the farm for six or eight years after his marriage. When Francis Joyce was a lad of four years he came with his parents to Indiana, and their wagons were first unloaded about ten miles from Columbus. There the father engaged in farming for a period of three or four years. They then lived near Kokomo for a year. This was followed by a residence on the farm where Francis Joyce now lives, where his father and mother died. This farm of one hundred and sixty acres was entered by Tom Cohee, and David Joyce bought eighty acres of it when it was a wilderness of under- brush, timber and water. Francis Joyce remembers having seen on this land herds of wild hogs and deer.
Mr. and Mrs. David Joyce became the parents of fourteen children, six of whom grew to maturity and three of whom are now living. The first born was Sarah Jane, who married John B. Stevens, of Washington township. The next daughter. Elsie, who is deceased, was the wife of A. McCain, of Logansport. Francis M. was the first son and the third child born. Margaret, who is deceased, was the second wife of A. McCain, of Logansport. David lives at home, and Effie, who never married and whose whereabouts is unknown. David Joyce, the father, was a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Francis M. Joyce attended the district school, and when he grew to manhood bought the family farm from the heirs. On March 8, 1883, he was married to Emma Melinda Brown, daughter of William J. Brown, of Washington township. To him and his wife have been born three children, these being William, who lives on the farm; Chester, who married Cath- erine Caldwell. daughter of J. Morgan Caldwell, and Ina, who lives at home.
Mr. Joyce erected his present home in 1902. He built a good barn in
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1890 and another barn in 1911, and a scale house in 1912. He has drained the farm and improved it.
Mr. Joyce is a prominent member of the Baptist church. He votes the Republican ticket. Because of his adherence to the principles of honor and integrity in all of his business transactions; because he is interested in the better things of life, and because he has given the weight of his influence to these affairs, Francis M. Joyce is a man who enjoys popular confidence and well-merited esteem.
ELIAS C. PATTY.
Elias C. Patty, the present capable, efficient and widely-admired trus- tee of Burlington township, Carroll county, Indiana, who is also a prosper- ous farmer, was born in Democrat township, this county, March 16, 1885. Mr. Patty is the son of W. A. and Salina (James) Patty. They were the parents of two children, Elias C. and Pearl. The latter is a graduate of the common schools and lives at home with her parents. Mr. Patty was one year old when his parents moved from Democrat township to Burlington township. He was educated in the common schools of the latter township and later was graduated from the common schools and the Burlington high school. Mr. Patty finished the high school course in 1902 and afterward taught school for three years. Later he attended the Marion Normal Col- lege, at Marion, Indiana, and was graduated from the commercial depart- ment.
On October 10. 1912, Elias C. Patty was married to Fannie Foust, also a graduate of the common schools and the daughter of J. W. Foust. of Rockfield. To them have been born one son, Robert F., born on October 28, 1913.
Not only is Elias C. Patty one of the best-informed men living in Burlington township, but he is a man who has always borne his share of the public responsibility. He has given his unqualified support to all public enterprises and movements. As a former teacher, he is naturally interested in the educational progress of the township, but his interest does not stop with educational affairs. He takes a commendable pride in all civic matters which reflect the superior interest of the people of this township.
Not only is Mr. Patty a successful farmer, but he is also interested in banking and is at present one of the directors of the Burlington State Bank, a prosperous institution which enjoys a large patronage in this section of
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Carroll county. Nominated by the Democratic party, Mr. Patty was elected to the office of township trustee in 1914 and is the youngest trustee in Car- roll county. In fact, he is one of the youngest trustees in the state of Indiana. His election to this important office before he had reached the age of thirty years is a most striking tribute to the universal esteem in which he is held by the people of Burlington township. Nevertheless, he is quiet and unassuming, wholly unaffected in his manners and devoid of all pretentions.
COL. ADELBERT BERNARD CRAMPTON.
Col. Adelbert B. Crampton, governor of the national home for dis- abled volunteer soldiers near the city of Marion, in Grant county, this state, for many years actively and honorably connected with the newspaper pro- fession at Delphi, this county, editor of the Carroll County Citizen-Times, who now occupies the distinguished position of dean of the Indiana news- paper fraternity. being the oldest newspaper editor in point of continuous service in the Hoosier state, is a native son of Indiana, a fact to which he ever has pointed with pride. He was born in the city of Elkhart, in the northern part of the state. March 8, 1843, son of Henry and Sally Ann (Keltner) Crampton, natives, respectively, of Vermont and Pennsylvania, the former of whom was the son of Ezekial Crampton, a Vermonter, of Scottish parentage, a soldier of the War of 1812, whose father was a sol- dier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War, and the latter of whom was the daughter of John Keltner, a Dunkard preacher, of Pennsyl- vania-Dutch stock, several of whose sons also were ministers of the same simple faith.
Henry Crampton moved from Lockport, New York, to Elkhart, Indi- ana, in the middle thirties of the last century, and in the latter place was engaged in bridge- and boat-building, being the owner of several boats that plied the waters of the St. Joseph river between Elkhart and St. Joseph, Michigan, in the days before the construction of the old Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana railroad, now the Lake Shore road, put a stop to the once thriving river traffic. He was made foreman of carpenters in the employ of the above railroad company and in that capacity constructed the first locomotive turn-table ever built in Chicago. The surviving children of Henry and Sally Ann (Keltner) Crampton are William H. Crampton. of Streator, Illinois; Mrs. Mary A. Olmstead, of Carthage, Missouri, and
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Col. A. B. Crampton, governor of the national soldiers' home at Marion, this state.
Adelbert B. 'Crampton left school at the age of eleven years to learn the printer's trade and never thereafter entered a school room as a student; but in the universal schooling of the print-shop, "the poor man's college," acquired a variety of learning and a breadth of understanding which for many years have caused him to be known as one of the best-informed men in Indiana. He began his apprenticeship in the office of the Elkhart Herald in the spring of 1854, he then being eleven years of age, and served there for three years, becoming an adept printer, swift, accurate and intelligent. He then worked for awhile in the office of the St. Joseph Valley Register, Schuyler Colfax, editor, and in the office of the Goshen Democrat, Robert Lowry, editor, after which he moved the plant of the Elkhart Herald to Three Rivers, Michigan, and assisted in the publication of the Three Rivers Herald, the first newspaper published in that city. In the meantime Mr. Crampton had been developing a forceful, fluent and entertaining style as a writer of terse, expressive newspaper English and was becoming widely known among the younger newspaper men of northern Indiana. In Septem- ber, 1861, he responded to the nation's call to arms, enlisting as a private in Company A, Forty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served valiantly with that regiment until the close of the war. Mr. Cramp- ton was a fine figure of a soldier, his more than six feet of height, his singularly erect bearing and graceful carriage distinguishing him above most of his comrades from a physical point of view, and he was straightway elected color-bearer of the regiment. He presently was promoted to the rank of orderly sergeant of Company A and not long thereafter was advanced to the rank of first lieutenant of that same company, which was his rank when he received his honorable discharge, a veteran soldier, when the regiment was mustered out on July 15, 1865, the war then being over.
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Lieutenant Crampton's knowledge of printer's ways and his ability as an editor obtained for him several commissions to interesting special service during the war and he became one of the best-known men in the army to which his regiment was attached. After the fall of Vicksburg, in the accomplishment of which signal victory the Forty-eighth Indiana had par- ticipated conspicuously, Lieutenant Crampton was detailed by General Grant to take charge of the office of the Vicksburg Citizen, as printer to the army, and it was while thus engaged that he issued the famous wall-paper edition of the Citizen, which made a tremendous "hit" with the army and which rarely fails to receive mention, even to this day, whenever survivors of that army
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get together and begin exchanging reminiscences of the war times. Lieu- tenant Crampton left Vicksburg with his regiment and after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain went with the regiment to Hunts- ville, Alabama, and while the regiment was stationed there was detailed by General Sherman to conduct the office of the North Alabamian at that place, as a government printing office.
Upon the close of his military experience Lieutenant Crampton returned to Indiana, locating in July, 1865, at Logansport, where he entered the service of the Logansport Journal, Col. Thomas H. Bringhurst, editor. Later he went to Wabash, where for awhile he was connected with the office of the WVabash Plain Dealer, Samuel Hibben, editor, after which he returned to Logansport and took service with the Logansport Pharos, Samuel A. Hall, editor, and remained with that paper, through several changes of ownership, until January, 1879, at which time he bought the Delphi Times, at Delphi, this county, and established his permanent home here. In 1892 Mr. Crampton founded the Carroll County Citizen, which, in 1900, he con- solidated with the Times, under the name of the Carroll County Citizen- Times, of which paper he ever since has been editor, as well as president of the company which publishes the same.
Mr. Crampton ever has been an ardent Democrat and during the cam- paign in which Joseph E. McDonald was chairman of the Indiana state Democratic committee he bought the Winamac Democrat at Winamac, this state, in the interests of harmony and during that campaign conducted both papers. In 1901 Mr. Crampton was also part owner and editor of the White County Democrat, at Monticello, in the neighboring county of White, and has for many years occupied a high place in the councils of the Demo- cratic party in this state, having been long recognized, also, as one of the ablest editorial exponents of the principles of that party in Indiana. No man in Hoosier newspaper circles occupies a higher place in the esteem of his confreres than does "Del" Crampton and all delight to honor him as the dean of the profession in this state, he now holding the distinguished position of being the oldest newspaper editor in point of continuous service in Indiana. Colonel Crampton is a former president of the Northern Indi- ana Editorial Association, former president of the Indiana State Democratic Editorial Association and for six years rendered valuable service as a mem- ber of the executive committee of the National Editorial Association.
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